Corporate Discounts & GoodLife Group Rate Membership
Employee Assistance Program for you and your loved ones!
Full Job Description
Workday Lead
About the Role Teranet is currently looking for an experienced Workday Lead to coordinate the planning, governance, and continuous improvement of the Workday platform. Acting as the primary liaison between IT, HR, Finance, Payroll, and other business stakeholders, this role will manage the enhancement roadmap, coordinate releases, and support the successful delivery of Workday-related projects.
The role is focused on stakeholder collaboration, release management, project coordination, and team support rather than day-to-day system configuration.
Reason for Vacancy - Replacement
What You'll Be Doing
Roadmap Planning & Stakeholder Collaboration
Partner with HR, Finance, Payroll, and IT stakeholders to understand priorities and future requirements.
Maintain the Workday enhancement roadmap and Jira backlog, facilitating regular planning and prioritization sessions.
Assess new Workday capabilities and coordinate recommendations for adoption and process improvement.
Provide stakeholders with clear updates on priorities, schedules, risks, and delivery status.
Evaluate emerging Workday capabilities, including Workday AI, Workday Agents, and other intelligent automation features, to identify and drive opportunities that deliver business value.
Collaborate with HR, Finance, and IT stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and drive AI-enabled use cases across employee and business processes.
Support the development of business cases and roadmap recommendations for AI, automation, and digital employee experience initiatives.
Champion and lead new Workday integrations with 3rd party applications to drive efficiencies and automation
Release Management & Governance
Lead the Workday semi-annual release process and coordinate internal enhancement release schedules.
Coordinate impact assessments, testing timelines, production deployment, validation, and stakeholder communications.
Facilitate Workday Release Planning meetings and ensure changes follow established governance and change management practices.
Maintain an integrated release calendar and manage dependencies across business and technical teams.
Project & Team Support
Support Workday projects and module implementations by coordinating plans, resources, milestones, risks, dependencies, and action items.
Coordinate initiatives involving Workday and complementary enterprise platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, ServiceNow, SharePoint, and DocuSign where business value can be achieved through AI, automation, or improved process integration.
Manage service availability & incident reporting in case of outage or service degradation
Work with Workday technical analysts, business partners, vendors, and technical teams to keep initiatives on schedule.
Help prioritize the team's workload and provide guidance on delivery approach and sequencing.
Act as an escalation point for delivery, scheduling, and cross-functional issues.
About You
5+ years of Workday experience in a lead analyst, release lead, project lead, or platform support role.
Experience supporting Workday module implementations or major enhancement programs.
Coordinating Workday releases, enhancements, or implementation projects.
Working knowledge of Workday HCM, Payroll, Financials, and Adaptive Planning modules.
Experience working with business stakeholders to identify and prioritize technology-driven process improvements.
Strong knowledge of Workday security, reporting, and integrations.
Experience managing delivery roadmaps, priorities, schedules, risks, and dependencies.
Experience with Jira, Agile delivery practices, and enterprise change-management processes.
Familiarity with APIs, integrations, and third-party AI agent frameworks that interact with enterprise SaaS applications.
Strong understanding of how enterprise SaaS platforms can be leveraged to improve business processes through automation and AI.
Familiarity with other Enterprise applications including: ServiceNow, Okta IAM, DocuSign E-signature
Experience with Workday AI capabilities, Workday Agents, or intelligent automation features.
Agile project-management certification is preferred.
Let's Talk Pay
We believe in being upfront about pay and helping you make informed decisions about your career. The annual pay range for this role is $126,500 - $148,500 CAD, inclusive of base salary and target incentive pay. We understand that great talent comes in many forms, each with unique skills, experience, and potential. Your salary will be tailored to reflect the experience you bring and the impact you're ready to have on this role.
At Teranet, we also know that compensation extends far beyond a pay cheque. Along with your cash compensation, we offer a comprehensive package which includes the following:
• 100% Employer Paid Health Benefit Plan • Employer Matching Retirement Savings Plan • Paid Vacation, Floater Days & Sick Leaves • Maternity, Parental and/or Adoption Leave Top-Up Programs • Corporate Discounts & GoodLife Group Rate Membership • Employee Assistance Program - for you and your loved ones!
